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Swimming

What is swimming?Why is water safety important?What is the history of recreational and competitive swimming?

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What is swimming?

Why learn to swim?

Final quiz

What is water safety and why is it important?

What is the history of swimming?

Meet the USA Olympic swim team!

How to get started in swimming!

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What is swimming?

Swimming is a water based physical activity and competitive sport.It is composed of four main strokes: freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly.

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Freestyle

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In freestyle, your arms will reach forward above the waters surface and pull back under the water in an hourglass figure.For your legs, you will do a flutter kick which are powerful but small kicks under the waters surface.Most swimmers will breathe every three strokes for freestyle.

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Backstroke

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For backstroke your arms will move like a windmill.

The legs will be the same as freestyle, a flutter kick.

This stroke is nice because you have the ability to breathe the entire time.

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Breaststroke

For breaststroke your arms will start by you chest, you then thrust them forwards and pull them in a circular motion towards your waist and back up to your chest.For the legs, you do a frog kick. They will be brought up to your waist, and kicked outwards and brought together and back up to your body.

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Butterfly

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This is the most difficult stroke to learn/perform.

The arms in butterfly will rotate all the way around the shoulder joint and into the water where the hands will make a key hole figure before coming back out of the water and repeating the process.

The legs will stay together and will move like a dolphin or mermaid tail would.

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Freestyle

Butterfly

Backstroke

Breaststroke

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Practice question one

Freestyle, corkscrew, elementary backstroke, breaststroke.

Freestyle, corkscrew, elementary backstroke, breaststroke

c. Breaststroke, butterfly, backstroke, freestyle.

d. Dog paddle, backstroke, butterfly, breaststroke.

What are the four main strokes of swimming?

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Which stroke is pictured here?

a. Freestyle

b. Backstroke

d. Butterfly

c. Breaststroke

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Why learn to swim?

Swimming is a fun and easy way to stay healthy, physically fit and active.For some people, knowing how to swim could be very important for their survival, especially if they live near a body of water!“It’s great for mental health. Studies have shown swimming improves psychological well being. Female swimmers in particular have been shown to experience significantly less tension, depression and anger after exercising than before.”

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What are some facts about swimming?

65% of people in the United States do not know how to swim.Swimming strengthens the heart and lungs.Elephants can swim as many as 20 miles a day. They use their trunks as natural snorkels!Swimming is the third most popular recreational sport in the United States.

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Practice question three

What is one benefit of learning to swim?

a. It increases blood pressure.

b. It helps to keep you healthy and in shape!

c. Swimming is the most active sport!

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How many people in the U.S. cannot swim?

a. 90%

b. 30%

c. 55%

d. 65%

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What is water safety and why is it important?

“Drowning is the second most common cause of death from injuries among kids under the age of 14.”If the water is too cold, don’t swim in it. The coldness makes your muscles weak and can prevent you from swimming or getting out of the water.Knowing the depth of the water you will be swimming in is important. You would not want to jump into the water and hit the bottom surface, a rock, or get trapped in seaweed.

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Drowning prevention

Always have an adult supervising you while you are swimming.Do not swim in water that you cannot touch the bottom of (don’t swim in the deep end of pools, etc.)Swim at your own pace!

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Why is water safety important?

a. Drowning is very common among children.

b. What is water safety?

c. To save lives of children and adults!

d. Both a and c.

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What is the history of recreational swimming?

Swimming has been found to date back to about 6000 B.C.The ancient Greeks held swimming in high regard.Plato thought that swimming was an essential part of proper education.Early swimmers were the Egyptians, the Phoenicians, and the Persians.

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What is the history of competitive swimming?

The Japanese were the first to hold competitive swimming races, in 1603.The British first championed swimming as a competitive sport in Europe in the 1800’s.Swimming was introduced as an Olympic sport in 1896 in Athens, Greece.It was not until 1912 that women were allowed to compete in the Olympics.